>i saw a post earlier about using the type command to send text files to the printer.
>it works great, except it's sending output to my main window as well as the printer.
>it won't take a noconsole and it does the same thing with talk set on or off.
>any ideas?

Gary,

If the file is small enough, try this -

lcfile = GETFILE('TXT')
lcmac = 'NOTEPAD /P ' + lcfile
RUN /N7 &lcmac

This will cause the notepad to print the text file. It does have some shortcomings, however. Note that this same technique can be used with the wordpad program as well.

HTH,

George